I have a Kmix so the food processor is an attachment that goes on the end of the immersion blender. I use it for crumble topping (one part sugar, one part fat, two parts flour), pastry, making my own nut butters, grating cheese when I need a lot, making my protein baked goods (generally sloppy and needing mixing in a blender), making fish patÚ, making bean patÚs

I have a food processor that I only have because it was my mothers. I don't use it very much - mainly for shredding zucchini, making hummus and for making bread crumbs. I also use it for blending my squash soup, since it is too thick for the blender to work well and I can't get it smooth enough with just a hand blender.

I have a little mini chopper that attaches to my hand blender that I use for grinding nuts for cookie baking. I also use if for grinding sugar and/or salt finer for baking.

For chopping veggies for a salad or pizza or onions for anything, I prefer a 'Slap Chop' type device - I have a Pampered Chef one. I use that thing a lot.

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After cleaning out my Dad's house, I have this advice: If you haven't used it in a year, throw it out!!!!.

I have a Cuisinart that my MIL gave me ca 1983(!) I used it fairly often when I first got it but that tapered off. I can't remember when I used it last. I don't like leaving appliances on the counter because I don't have enough room and the Cuisinart is too heavy for me to lift comfortably so I don't take it out of the cabinet unless I really, really need it.

On the other hand, I love my cuisinart mini prep and use it every time I make lots of chopped vegetables. It's tiny, lightweight, and was inexpensive. It only chops. It doesn't do the other things a regular cuisinart will do but it's all I need.

le sigh. this is a sore spot for me. i had a not-expensive but OK food processor. the cover crackes so we can use it but you need two hands to hold it down and then one to shove the food so...

I also have a mini set - it has a small blender thing that i never use and an imersion stick that i use a LOT.

since i developed some sort of carpal tunnel on my left hand the physio therapist advised me to cut down on my kitchen work- so a food processor would *really* come in handy (since i do all my own from scratch cooking), but the good ones are really expensive (about 450$ but in real terms that's a big chunk of my salary) and I don't want to buy a mediocre one. meanwhile i bought a mandoline so i can shred cabbage and jullienne veggies.

when it was in good order i used it for:hummussalsashredding veggies (like zuchhini, potato and carrot)chopping onioncole slawsmoothieshorseradish once a year.

The bigger one gets used about once a year when I'm preparing food for the thundering herd. (When all the kids and grandkids are here at one time.) The other I used to use really a lot.

Now that we're back down to just the two of us, I honestly wouldn't miss either one of them if they broke. I wouldn't replace them. But the smaller one was a whole lot more useful to me, didn't take up hardly any room at all, and the parts that touched food were all dishwasher safe so clean up was fast and easy.